Robert McParland

The short story "Bringing Smoky Home" will appear in the Pomona Valley Review.

Robert McParland spoke on Mark Twain to a New Jersey audience last Friday. On Saturday, April 20 he will speak at the Felician College Ethics Conference in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Robert McParland will speak on a panel at the American Popular Culture conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday evening, March 28, at 8:30 P.M..

Film and Literary Modernism now can be pre-ordered at Barnes and Noble, Amazon (U.S. and Canada), and the publisher's website. It has been catalogued at the British Library. Publication will be this month.

A new book, Film and Literary Modernism, is scheduled to appear in March,
with an international gathering of contributors.

Essays appear in several recently published books on popular music:

"A Generation Lost In Space" in Do You Believe in Rock and Roll?-Essays on Don McLean's 'American Pie'" Published September 2012
"Down to the River: John Fogerty's Imagined Southern Gothic" in Finding Fogerty. Publication December 2012
"Facing the Music: The Poetics of Bruce Springsteen" (more…)

Charles Dickens's American Audience has been reviewed in the following
publications:

Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol.4 (Fall 2012): 29-32.
SHARP News Vol. 21, No. 3 (2012) p.11.
Victorian Studies Vol. 54, No. 2 (Winter 2012) pp. 374-76.
Nineteenth Century Studies Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 402-06.
Dickens Studies Annual (2012)
Choice Reviews (2011)